Squirrel Deterrence
Jane McGary via pbs (Fri, 25 Dec 2020 13:03:57 PST)
I agree with Cody: your problem is more likely to be a rat. One got into
my garage a couple of years ago and ate the leaves off the tender plants
I was keeping under lights there. As Cody found, it took several
different methods finally to kill the rat and save the plants. I haven't
seen any sign of squirrels eating foliage, though they dig in pots (more
to bury the peanuts some annoying neighbor feeds them, than to eat
bulbs). I see them burying Douglas fir seeds under the trees, where the
ground is covered with cyclamen plants, but they haven't eaten any
cyclamen corms (yet). These are the large gray squirrels Robin
mentioned, which have largely driven the small brown Douglas squirrels
out of urban areas here. They also prey on birds' nests. I do not brake
for squirrels.
Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA
On 12/25/2020 11:59 AM, Cody H via pbs wrote:
Have you seen the squirrels in the act? If not, I wonder if it isn’t a
rat... I have been dealing with a similar problem, which in my case was
definitely a Norway rat that had discovered my winter growing bulbs in the
greenhouse and had been ransacking them, eating the fresh new leaves and
digging up the pots and scattering the bulbs and labels, consuming most of
them but leaving a few chewed in half here and there, or just yanking them
up and caching them under the tables in mixed piles so now I have no idea
what they are.
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